The problem with giving the US MIC the monopoly for producing all the West's weaponry is that the US MIC is just not capable of producing enough weapons for the whole of the West.<p>In the last big one, WW2, you had Britain producing weapons for Britain, the Soviets producing weapons for the Soviets, and the US producing weapons for themselves and also some extras for others.<p>At the moment, there are two very small wars going on, Israel and Ukraine. The West's MIC is incapable of producing enough weapons for those two tiny flareups. Just imagine how bad things would be if there was a war the size of WW2 in progress. There'd be soldiers everywhere with nothing in their hands, and getting wiped out